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By Open They Really Mean Closed
via GigaOM by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by mndoci Sad but true. SillyThis is hilarious. Google ignores MySpace. Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect. They all think they are open. Google and Facebook trying to out anti-open each other.
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Google Spreadsheets Become Wikis
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click on the Share tab and enable "Anyone can edit this document WITHOUT LOGGING IN", your spreadsheet becomes a wiki...
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Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles
via RoomForMilk: Fresh Skimmed Slashdot Headlines by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
voodoosws points out on Mark Shuttleworth's blog Shuttleworth's call for synchronized publication of Linux distributions, excerpting: "There's one thing that could convince me to change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the opportunity to collaborate with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major / minor release cycle. If two out of three of Red Hat (RHEL), Novell (SLES)...
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Human Computation (or “Mechanical Turk” meets “Family Feud”)
via writing | ben fry by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by mndoci Turing, we have a problemComputers are really good at repetitive work. You can ask a computer to multiply two numbers together seven billion times and not only will it not complain, it’ll probably have seven billion answers for you a few seconds later. Ask a person to do the same thing and they’ll either walk away at the outset, realizing the ridiculousness of the task, or...
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John Wilbanks on the Erosion of the Public Domain
via ChemSpider Blog by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by mndoci This is an important discussion and perhaps we/I are making things to complicated, but I think most of us make that distinctionJohn Wilbanks opened his blog post regarding the Erosion of the Public Domain with the statement “This Chemspider licensing brouhaha is generating some needed discussions around open data, and something I keep hearing about is that it is GPL v. BSD all...
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And the Winner Is …
via The Spittoon by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by mndoci Mike won. Why am I not surprised :)Could this be Lilly Mendel?The judges have met and a winner has been chosen.In the first 23andMe Win Your Genome Contest, the challenge was to describe Lilly Mendel – a real person whose data are presented in the 23andMe demo account – based on her genetic information alone. As we declared in the announcement of the contest, entries were...
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Yahoo Releases Internet Location Platform
via ProgrammableWeb by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by mndoci It's all about location this week ... well that and friendsThis week Yahoo announced its new Internet Location Platform API, “a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth” that “provide[s] the Yahoo! Geographic Developer Community with the vocabulary and grammar to describe the world’s geography in an unequivocal, permanent, and language-neutral...
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Building Chempedia: Start Simple, Then Iterate
via Depth-First by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by mndoci Feedback required. Go do it.As a medium for building software, the Web offers unparalleled adaptability. With nothing to download or install, users of Web applications automatically see the newest version - always. This may sound like a small thing, and technically it is. But it dramatically increases the effectiveness with which software can be created. The previous article in...
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HP-EDS: It’s About The Clouds Baby!
via GigaOM by Om Malik on May 13, 2008
With the Microsoft-Yahoo battle fading from the dynamic random memories of our over stimulated brains, it is time to turn our attention to Hewlett-Packard’s $12 billion bid for EDS, a services giant in its own right. This indeed is the real thing: bothcompanies have confirmed their talks and perhaps their seriousness. HP-EDS pairing will go down as one of the more significant developments of...
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A Test on Peptide Stability of AMBER Force Fields with Implicit Solvation.
via PubMed: "protein structure p... by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by mndoci Problem is that we still have a long way to goRelated ArticlesA Test on Peptide Stability of AMBER Force Fields with Implicit Solvation.J Phys Chem B. 2008 May 10;Authors: Shell MS, Ritterson R, Dill KAWe used replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations to evaluate four different AMBER force fields and three different implicit solvent models. Our aim was to determine...
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